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I've seen no indication that Google considers the NSA any sort of opponent.

• swombat 13y ago
  I think they do now. There has to be some sort of sense of personal professionalism of the many highly qualified security experts working at Google, that is hurt by the revelations that the NSA basically fucked them over and drew a slide with a smiley face on it about how they fucked them over.
  • taigeair 13y ago
    It's strange to drawn a nose on a smiley...
  • rhizome 13y ago
    Then again, plausible deniability. Google is of less use to the NSA if they have fewer customers.
  • Sundog 13y ago
    Could not believe the fucking smiley face. That's their attitude towards privacy.
• unreal37 13y ago
  With governments around the world (see Brazil and India) now banning Google products for official government use, I can imagine overall usage of Google products will decline outside of the U.S. This is a threat to Google's international business. They have a vested financial interest in reducing the hacking against their systems.
• wonderzombie 13y ago
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-encrypts-data-amid-backlash-against-nsa-spying/2013/09/06/9acc3c20-1722-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-enc... “It’s an arms race,” said Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, based in Mountain View, Calif. “We see these government agencies as among the most skilled players in this game.”